Timber Creek Lodge
Okaloosa County, Florida⁞1200± ACRES
One of the Most Prolific Stands of Native Long-Leaf Pine and Wiregrass surrounding arguably the Largest Custom Log Home in the South
- 1,200 +/- acre Turn-Key High-Quality Recreational Property, Okaloosa County, Fl
- Approx. 3.5 +/- Miles on both sides of Juniper Creek, hard bottom pearl white sand, plus frontage on Pond Creek
- Owner Financing and Trades Considered
- Custom Log Cabin, 16,015 +/- H/C Sq. Ft. with an additional 8,552+/- sq. ft. of garage, decks, & porches
- Built in 2007 with 8 BR and 10 BA
- Designed by noted Log Home Architect
- Highly Maintained
- Paver driveway leading to porte cochere
- Work of art hand-carved door entrance with Extensive customized woodwork and hardwood throughout
- 2,000 Sq. Ft. Living Room featuring floor to ceiling windows and 40 ft. ceilings overlooking Juniper Creek with a Colorado Stone lined two-sided fireplace
- Custom-built Elk Antler Chandelier
- Gourmet kitchen with Thermador appliances
- Billiard/Game Room with pool table, gun display cabinets, and large stone fireplace
- 1,266 sq. ft. master wing
- Elevator to all three floors
- 5,500lb Door to Large Bank Vault and fireproof safe room
- Movie/Media Room
- Stone lined Wine Cellar
- Up to 22-Car Heated garage, Fitness Gym, Wild Game-Processing Room
- Second floor screened cooking room with sink, built in stainless grill & commercial exhaust hood
- Outdoor fireplace with a Second and third floor balcony, 190 ft. long
- 12,500 sq. ft. in out buildings 7,200 sq. ft. Steel building for equipment storage with equipment included
- White Sand Beaches along creek
- Gated Entrance with paved driveway
- 109 +/- Manicured Acres surrounding house
- Lodge located in the center of property for ultimate privacy
- Three Ponds stocked with bass, bream and catfish
- Beautiful stands of natural Longleaf pine
- 116 +/- acres of planted Longleaf pine
- Substantial Timber - Managed with Prescribed Fire and established rotation
- Great Whitetail Deer Habitat and Population with Established Hunting Blinds
- Located minutes from Downtown Crestview, Florida and 10 minutes from Crestview Airport
- 45 Miles to Destin Florida - Home to the World's Most Beautiful White Sand Beaches
- Turn-key with furniture, decor, and equipment
Almost 25,000 sq.ft. Including Porches and 22- Car Garage
3.5 Miles on Both Sides of White Sand Juniper Creek and Several Ponds Located just Minutes to Restaurants & Just 45 miles to Beaches and Shopping in Destin, Florida
Thoughts on the sale: Regarded as the “largest log cabin east of the Mississippi,” this property also contained 1,200 acres of Longleaf Pine. We were able to turn it into a PR “bonanza.” We closed it to a German family relocating from California. Concurrently, they also bought a $16M beach house, the most expensive home ever sold on the Emerald Coast.
Located in North Florida along a 3.5 mile stretch of white sand Juniper Creek, is a property and lodge unlike anything in the Southeast. Timber Creek Lodge is a 1,200 +/- acre high quality recreational property featuring what is likely the largest custom log lodge in the Southeast. Totaling almost 25,000 square feet including porches, this spectacular lodge is in a class all to itself. This property offers year-round enjoyment; it has three stocked ponds, miles on Juniper Creek and Pond Creek, stands of native longleaf pine and great hardwoods, and great deer and turkey. It is located just minutes to restaurants in downtown Crestview, Florida and just 45 miles to beaches, golfing, and shopping and entertainment in Destin, Florida, home of the World’s most beautiful beaches. Timber Creek Lodges the perfect blend of a private high-quality recreational retreat with easy access to restaurants, beaches, and shopping.
The breathtaking custom log lodge is unlike anything you have ever seen. Designed by a noted log home architect, the lodge, built in 2007, took two years to complete and no attention to detail was missed. From custom woodwork throughout, hardwood and stone floors, light fixtures throughout valued at $250,000, a front door that was crafted by an artisan in Vermont, to all the stone in the home coming from Colorado. The lodge has eight bedrooms and ten baths and totals almost 25,000 square feet; 16,015 +/- heated/cooled square feet with an additional 8,552 +/- square feet of garage, decks, & porches. Even with this amount of space, the lodge is extremely energy efficient. The lodge is located in the center of the property for ultimate privacy and the front yard has great views of the pond and the backyard overlooks white sandy beaches on Juniper Creek and towering pines.
Upon entering the property, is a paved drive where you will pass by beautiful pines and ponds and then arrive at the paver driveway that leads from the entrance gate to the porte cochere of the lodge. Entering the lodge, there is a gorgeous “work of art” hand-carved entrance door. Through the foyer is the 2,000 +/- square foot living room with 40-foot ceilings, a massive custom-built Elk antler chandelier, a Colorado stone lined two-sided fireplace, wet-bar, and floor to ceiling windows overlooking beautiful views of the white sand beach on Juniper Creek and touring pines. The gourmet kitchen has granite counter tops, large island, Thermador appliances, a six-burner stove, double ovens, microwave, and commercial hood. There is a breakfast area off the kitchen and a formal dining room, both that lead to the balcony and have beautiful views of the Creek and property. Also, there is a billiard/game room with pool table, gun display cabinets, and the two-sided Colorado stone lined fireplace. There is also a media/movie room that goes out to the screened cooking porch with sink, built in stainless grill, and commercial exhaust hood. Also, on the second floor, is a laundry room and three large guest bedrooms all with private bathrooms and a 190 foot back balcony with an outdoor fireplace, a covered pavilion, and beautiful views.
On the third floor, there are two guest bedrooms both with private bathrooms. Also, there is the master wing, which totals 1,266 +/- square foot, including the master bedroom with fireplace, a bunkroom off the master, and the master bath with his and her vanities, double shower with waterfall, and Jacuzzi therapeutic hot tub. The third floor is easily accessible via stairs or the elevator (which allows access to all three stories). All the bedrooms on the third-floor lead to the 190-foot third floor balcony that overlooks the sandy beach on the creek.
On first floor, (aka bottom floor), there is a stone lined wine cellar, a fitness gym, several storage closets, and a 22-car heated garage. There is also a wild game-processing room with attached mud room/hunt room with full bathroom and is also currently used as a bedroom. Other features of the lodge include an elevator to all three floors, a 5,500lb door to large bank vault and fireproof safe room. The detail throughout the entire lodge is well planned and creates a high utilized space.
Additional cars and equipment can be stored in the 5,000 square foot heated and cooled garage with apartment or the 7,200 square foot of steel equipment garage. Multiple size tractors and implements (included with the sale) are stored here. There is no shortage of storage. Everything one would need to manage this property is included for a simple turnkey operation. One could simply walk in and have everything needed at their disposal.
From the custom lodge to the land, you are quick to realize what makes the Timber Creek Lodge property so unique. The habitat here is managed through a prescribed fire rotation. The grounds around the house campus are immaculate and trails are maintained throughout the entire roll of the property. There are great ecotones on the property with great natural and planted timber (all long leaf pine), good hardwood bottoms providing great habitat and forage for wild game. There is substantial timber value on this property. There are multiple hunting blinds established on the property. The current landowner has held many statewide bass tournament records, and the lakes he has built here are amazing. Three lakes are stocked with bass, bream, and catfish, perfect for the angler of any age.
A Social Storm® Ranked Property: Timber Creek Lodge and it's Social Storm® Property Attributes are Highly Ranked. This Social Storm® property belongs to a unique asset class with key property attributes that investors gravitate to for safety in bad times and buy for a recreation reward in good times.
Why choose a Social Storm® Property?
Timber Creek Lodge is located minutes to I-10 and to restaurants in Downtown Crestview, 10 minutes to the Crestview Airport, and convenient 45 mile drive to Destin and the Emerald Coast, internationally touted as the “World’s Most Beautiful White Sand Beaches”; with ample shopping, dining, golfing, and entertaining options.
Everything on the property from the custom lodge to the ponds to the entrance are done and maintained with class. It would take years to recreate what was done here; this property is a product of years of meticulous planning. Timber Creek Lodge is well maintained with no deferred maintenance and is turn-key and ready for immediate enjoyment. This is exactly the easy to walk into, turn-key, and easy to operate recreational property that is within easy proximate to restaurants, beaches, shopping and entertainment that is in high demand.
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Bruce Ratliff is a retired elected official (Property Appraiser Taylor County). Bruce brings years of experience in ad valorem tax knowledge. His property tax background gives JKA Associates & clients a unique insight into the complicated tax process. Bruce held several positions in the Florida Association of Property Appraisers, including member of the Board of Directors, President, Vice-President and Secretary, and served on the Agricultural & Legislative Committees for the Association. The real estate business has been part of Bruce’s life since childhood. His mother, Shirley Ratliff owned Professional Realty of Perry, Florida and his father, Buster owned Ratliff Land Surveying which Bruce was General Manager of before his political career.
From murky farm ponds to pristine glacier-cut lakes and everything in between, Knox Daniels’ expertise stems from a lifelong fascination of water and the creatures that live in and around it. He recognizes and helps clients appreciate the value water features bring to a property. “My goal is to help buyers realize and sellers maximize the value different water bodies bring to a property, not only in a recreational sense, but also for social storm reasons.” After extensively traveling the country for collegiate BASS fishing tournaments, Knox graduated and worked for the Southeast’s finest fisheries and wildlife biologist, Greg Grimes. With Grimes’ company, AES, Knox managed many of the southeast’s finest private lake estate/impoundment properties, and learned the intricacies of upscale property management. Learning from Greg and other biologists, Knox honed in on the specific conditions and habitat needed for optimal gamefish growth in private lakes. He has also worked as a property manager on several thousand acres and for a commercial developer, facilitating the dirt work and builds of several apartment complexes, but his true passion has always been in the outdoors. “I’ve always had an insatiable fascination with ponds/lakes and am grateful to be able to help to place clients on the properties of their dreams and make their personal fisheries/wildlife goals reality with JKA.” – Knox Daniels
As a landowner of his own family farm, Lick Skillet, along with family land that has been passed down and enjoyed together at Keaton Beach for 40 years, Jon knows what it means to be a steward of the last best places. As a third-generation land broker with more than 30 years of experience in advising landowners in this niche, Jon is known for his innate ability to harvest a land’s unique intrinsic value. Touting several notable sales under his belt, Jon personally closed Rock Creek/Molpus – 124,000 acres of premium timberland at $142,000,000 – which was known as the largest timberland land sale in the Southeast for eight years running. He is a co-founding member of LandLeader and achieved the real estate industry’s highest honor, “2022 National Broker of the Year – Recreational Land Sales,” by the Realtors® Land Institute.
Prior to joining Jon Kohler & Associates, Walter Hatchett served for 30 years as a land manager to several of the south’s most esteemed properties, including Rock Creek. As a former property manager himself, and a consistently ranked “Top Sales Producer” nationwide and achieved “APEX Top 20 Land Broker” multiple times, Walter has a keen eye for the best in habitat management.
With Madison County roots, Lori grew up on her family farm at Pettis Springs along the historic Aucilla River. A love of the land was instilled in Lori very early on by her father who was a local farmer. Lori understands the importance of good land stewardship and has witnessed first-hand how her own father, a former 2-term member of the Florida House of Representatives whose district encompassed many rural counties of the Red Hills Plantation Region, with a little bit of sweat equity, so lovingly worked their own family land. These are core values she carries with her today, and nothing gives her more personal satisfaction than to represent some of the south’s best land stewards.
Hailing from a long line of outdoorsmen, Tim learned a great deal from his father and grandfather. He saw first-hand what it means to be a good land steward. He believes land is so much more than a place to hunt, fish, and grow timber or crops. “It’s an identity, a resting place, a safe haven and a way of life, said Tim.” Tim’s family ties to Alabama run deep. During his grandfather’s first term, Governor James was responsible for signing into law Alabama’s first state duck stamp which helped to ensure funding for the procurement, development, and preservation of wetlands for migratory waterfowl habitat. He also established Alabama’s lifetime hunting license, so it is no surprise that Tim is an avid outdoorsman with a keen eye as to how best to improve habitat for the greater good of its wildlife.
Jason has been assisting landowners for the last 28 years in Georgia and South Carolina obtain achievements the owners did not realize were possible. His degree in Biology from Georgia Southern stemmed from the desire to know how things in nature work. His plantation roots began at just 16 years old outside of Albany, GA and the last 20 years were spent in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His entire career has been spent developing a global approach to plantation management. That plan included sales. Sales is in Jason’s blood- his mom had a 45-year career as a real estate broker. After college, he chose to pursue his passion of making properties great. In 2011, Jason sold his first plantation. Since then, he has assisted buyers and sellers with over $20 million in sales while most of that time working as a full-time General Manager of a large Lowcountry plantation. Today, he is committed to using his unique skill set and experience to guide landowners through the many challenges of plantation ownership.